Jürgen Jacobs

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Jürgen Carl Jacobs (born May 17, 1936 in Aachen ; † December 29, 2011 ) was a German specialist in German .

Career

Jacobs, born in Aachen in 1936, first studied law (Dr. jur., Cologne 1962), then German. In 1964 he received his doctorate in the field of modern German literary history; his dissertation dealt with the novels of Christoph Martin Wieland . In 1971 Jacobs completed his habilitation at the University of Cologne with the font Wilhelm Meister und seine Brüder. Studies on the German Bildungsroman . He taught modern German literary history first in Cologne and Bonn, then from 1983 as a full professor at the Bergische Universität Wuppertal . The focus of his scientific work was the literature of the 18th century and the history of the educational novel. However, his teaching and research activities also included authors such as Thomas Mann and Bertolt Brecht . Since 1999 Jacobs was a full member of the North Rhine-Westphalian Academy of Sciences and Arts .

His grave is in the municipal forest cemetery in the Reinshagen district of Remscheid .

Fonts (selection)

  • 1969: Wieland's novels . Bern / Munich: Francke.
  • 1972: Wilhelm Meister and his brothers. Studies on the German Bildungsroman . Munich: Wilhelm Fink Verlag.
  • 1976: Prose of the Enlightenment . Munich: Winkler Verlag.
  • 1983: The German picaresque novel . Munich / Zurich: Artemis.
  • 1986: Lessing: An Introduction . Munich / Zurich: Artemis. ISBN 3-7608-1327-5 .
  • 1989: The German Bildungsroman. History of the genre from the 18th to the 20th century (together with Markus Krause). Munich: Beck Verlag.
  • 1998: The way of the Picaro. Investigations on the European picaresque novel . Trier: WVT.
  • 2001: Aporia of the Enlightenment. Studies on the intellectual and literary history of the 18th century . Tübingen / Basel: Francke.
  • 2005: Interim balances of life. To a basic pattern of the educational novel . Bielefeld: Aisthesis publishing house.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Jürgen Carl Jacobs in Der Westen, January 2, 2012
  2. ↑ a b Obituary: Germanist Jürgen Carl Jacobs has died
personal data
SURNAME Jacobs, Jürgen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jacobs, Jürgen Carl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German Germanist
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Aachen
DATE OF DEATH December 29, 2011